It's senior night in Alumni Arena, the crowd rushes onto the court after the men's basketball team has won its final regular season game.
Many college students experience sleepless nights before a big test. Many of the seniors on the football team experienced this when they had the biggest test of their careers on Tuesday. The Ralph Wilson Stadium Fieldhouse played host to Buffalo's annual pro day. The seniors displayed their skills in a series of drills, similar to the NFL combine to scouts from 10 NFL teams including the Bills, Patriots, and Saints. The highest rated prospect from this year's senior class was wide receiver Marcus Rivers.
A major portion of being a Division-1 athlete involves a strong, healthy diet. For most, a weekly trip to the supermarket would suffice.
On Monday afternoon, the men's basketball team gathered together at the end of practice like it typically does.
There were M-V-P chants that serenaded from every corner of Alumni Arena Saturday. They were quiet at first.
While the eyes of Buffalo were on Alumni Arena Saturday night for the men's basketball game, another Buffalo team was making its own run at a championship. The men's swimming and diving team came into this years' Mid-American Conference Championships as defending champions with expectations of winning a second title. But the Bulls (6-1, 1-0 MAC) fell just short this year, finishing 19 points behind Eastern Michigan (4-3, 1-0 MAC). Buffalo went into the final day of the meet trailing by 11 points, and took the lead after a strong performance in the 200-yard backstroke.
It was more of the same for the women's basketball team on Saturday: A strong start deteriorated into an ugly finish, dashing any hope of an upset in Alumni Arena. The contest featured two teams in very different places within the conference.
The biggest meet of the season for the track and field teams is right on the horizon: the Mid-American Conference championships.
This season has simply been one of struggle for the wrestling team. Despite some strong individual efforts, the team has looked nothing but lackluster for much of the season, as it has gone its first four matches into conference play without anything to show in the win column. For one day at least, it all came together. The Bulls (6-14, 1-4 Mid-American Conference) would not be denied a conference victory, putting on one of their most impressive dual meet performances of the season.
The men's basketball team took a break from the grind that is the Mid-American Conference schedule on Saturday.
Even though it may feel like UB is still waiting out winter in Buffalo, the spring season is about to get underway. The softball team will head to Florida for its opening games this weekend.
Not one player on the men's basketball team has won in Mount Pleasant, Mich., and that was enough motivation for the squad coming into Wednesday's game. It wasn't the prettiest display of basketball, and the Bulls (15-6, 8-2 Mid-American Conference) got all they can handle from a desperate Central Michigan (7-16, 2-8 MAC) team, but they were able to squeak by the Chippewas 66-62 at McGuirk Arena. This marks the seventh straight win for the Bulls, after starting the MAC portion of the schedule 1-2.
The struggling wrestling team went into Ypsilanti, Michigan Wednesday in search of its first victory in the Mid-American Conference, and it left still searching. The Bulls (5-14, 0-4 MAC) were introduced to a tough environment, as Eastern Michigan (14-6, 3-2 MAC) hosted its last dual meet match of the season on Senior Night.
The first half of Wednesday night's game was a grind-it-out, sloppy affair that ended with hometown Buffalo leading just 29-24.
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